Chapter Seventy-Three: Returning Home to Deal with the Aftermath
Lingwa watched the crowd disperse around her, the high platform began to be deserted, Zhenxue's family was drowned in the crowd, gradually drifting away, and her heart was lost, Bai Yuanying was directing his soldiers to move things on the platform, ignoring him, thinking, I will live with this rival in the future, I don't know what kind of days will wait for me?
At this moment, an old man suddenly climbed up to the high platform again, rushed to Bai Yuanying, walked to him and knelt down with a thud, and pleaded softly,
"The old man still begged the young master to be gracious, and let this offspring be born once, right?"
As he spoke, he turned his head and pointed at Lingwa, who recognized Zhenxue's father!
The old Zhen's head was wet all over, although the afternoon sun was warm, but his face was still plying purple, coupled with mixed sorrows and joys, after multiple life and death interpretations, his whole body was trembling all the time!
"He is not only related to the little girl, but also related to my Zhen family, I have to take care of the old man?
When Bai Yuanying heard this, he looked at the old man with wide eyes, and then looked at the spirit baby in the distance, and said loudly,
"Let him go? This kid has injured so many of my brothers, what should I do? Doesn't letting him go back is not the same as letting the tiger go back to the mountain? If something happens again, can you take it seriously, old man?"
"The younger man is far away, escorting the little girl, rushing back over the mountains and mountains, and being kind to my family! I just ask the old man to let him sit in my house and sit on his own, and do his best to be the elders, the landlord? Since the little girl has violated the clan rules, the old man will no longer protect him, and the little girl will also tell the secret in public today, and the whole clan will know about it! The old man only begs the young people to be able to say two words for themselves, and he will be sent back after three days, and ask the young man to accept the whole!"
After speaking, the old chastity kowtowed again!
Bai Yuanying saw that the blood bubbles on Lao Zhen's forehead were blistered, thought about it, and said,
"For the sake of your old man, I'll give you another face! But this kid has an extraordinary hand, he has to bring iron tools, once he is free, our entire Baihezhou, except for me, I'm afraid no one can subdue him!"
"It's okay, it's okay, thank you, young master, thank you!"
After finishing the work, the old lady walked to the side of the spirit baby and said softly,
"Let's go, kid, come and sit at my house!"
Lingwa felt a burst of warmth in her heart at this time, showed a smile, and said,
"Thank you, uncle, for taking me in, thank you!"
Then cooperate with the soldiers to untie the ropes, put on shackles and leg shackles, and follow the old man step by step down the high platform. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
After seeing Lingwa leave, Bai Yuanying immediately recruited a few soldiers, and after whispering a few words, he saw more than a dozen guys holding knives and guns, jumping off the high platform quickly, and recruiting more than a dozen soldiers under the stage, a group of twenty or thirty people, followed closely behind Lingwa and walked into the crowd together.
The water of the White River is still crystal clear, like a wide long belt gently and slowly flowing to the east, the snow lotus mountain in the distance is majestic and straight, straight into the clouds, the golden light is shining all around under the sun, majestic and magnificent, and the secret place makes people yearn for it!
Lingwa dragged the shackles and shackles, walked behind Zhenxue's family in a hurry, and looked up at the high mountains in the distance that did not enter the clouds from time to time, the visual distance was about twenty miles, and a large patch of snow on the mountainside could be seen, everything that happened just now seemed to be about to fly into the back of his head, and the people around him were secretly looking at him with strange eyes, but he turned a blind eye, only kept looking at the mountain in the distance, thinking about all the hardships, and finally got closer!
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Old man Bai took a few bigwigs all the way back to the ancestral hall, and the servants had already prepared a sumptuous meal for a long time! Seeing that the leaders had returned, it was estimated that it had been too long, and the food was cold, and they were busy taking it to the kitchen to heat up.
The old man was still angry, sat on the big chair in the living room, picked up the big bowl of tea on the table, and scolded angrily while drinking,
"These little girls are really becoming more and more uneducated, more and more lawless, they actually dare to stir the clansmen, confuse the people, and challenge the gods, they are simply risking the world, I don't know how thick the sky is, and it is not too much to exterminate her nine clans!
The mages stepped forward and comforted,
"Patriarch Bai doesn't have to be too angry, at this time and that time, since the girl is willing to come back, it means that she is still in awe of the gods! Now that the big sacrifice is imminent, it is important to appease the people!
Several other bigwigs should also be attached, and they all said, what the master said, what he said!
One of the bigwigs took over the topic and said puzzled,
"Does the girl say that she has a marriage contract and is not suitable for human sacrifice? Do we use her, or do we find someone else?"
The old man interrupted and said,
"Of course I use her! The girl knows a fart, she can't do it, she can't do it? What kind of marriage contract is she? It's not clear, it's not clear, who can approve it? It's bad morals, it's insulting to the ancestors, and if you don't use these two guys to pretend to be a pig cage and sink into the river, it's even if it's an open net. If you don't give sacrifices, then there will be no heavenly reason!"
After scolding Zhen Xue, seeing that more than a dozen bigwigs in a room were silent, the old man's heart calmed down a little, and he regained a little bit of the feeling of his youth, and then pointed to the two thin middle-aged men and said loudly,
"Huang, Xia two priests, are your altars ready? Must be cleaned, washed over and over again, washed out of the color of white stone, and is there a 'hundred miles shed' set up? The place where thousands of people keep vigil must be firm, don't fall apart when the wind blows, play-
"There are also sacrificial cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, eggs, food for thousands of people, firewood and grass for those days, all of which must be prepared and indispensable!"
The two little priests Huang and Xia listened carefully, and after listening, they all nodded and responded, "There is no problem, most of them are already in place, make sure nothing goes wrong!"
"What about the people to send the sacrifices? Have they been decided, how did you decide?"
The mages took over and said,
A total of 20 people, 10 candidates of the Bai nationality and 20 candidates of the black nationality, and they will be decided by lottery on the spot! The number of the winning lottery is registered, each household subsidizes two buckets of wheat, one tael of silver, and the list of candidates has been listed, and it will be announced when the time comes!"
"You must do a good job, don't cause trouble again, there's no time!"
"What the patriarch said is that everything is going on in an orderly manner! Now that the candidate for the sacrifice has been decided, there are no other worries—" The mages said this, paused deliberately, and then said in a slurred voice,
"It's just that I still have a little bit of a small problem here that hasn't been solved?"
When the old man Bai heard this, he looked up puzzled and asked,
"You still have something to solve?"
"Last time, Patriarch Bai promised to give 3,000 catties of yellow paper, 3,000 catties of silver paper, a total of 200 taels of silver, and the second young master has not delivered a penny?
"Yes, haven't you given it yet? This bastard must have fallen into a woman's nest all day long--don't worry, I'll go back at night, and I'll tell that kid to send it to you tomorrow! Don't worry-"
"With the patriarch's words, of course Lao Dao is relieved! haha!"
At this time, the servants brought the heated good dishes and good meals to the table one after another, big fish and meat, rice wine, rice, big bread, everything, more than a dozen people didn't have much to say, the usual rare wine and delicacies, plus the stomach that had been emptied long ago, couldn't wait, sat around the two large square tables, and immediately devoured it—
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Zhen Xue held her sister-in-law, led her little sister, followed Zhen Gang's stumbling steps, full of grief and indignation, and hurried home!
Lao Zhentou walked for a while, I don't know if it was old and dazzled, or tossing overnight and exhausted? began to stumble, already disabled, at this time the steps were more chaotic, drunk, every step wanted to use his hands to support the ground, fortunately was supported by the spirit baby to follow the family.
Most of the crowd of people at the party dispersed, both sides of the road seemed much quieter, when the family passed by the bamboo forest of the old Qintou's house, they heard the old Qintou's woman in the yard, crying loudly and scolding,
"You dead girl with a thousand cuts, you still have the face to come back? You run, run—run up the hill to find a wild man—
"You dead girl who has lost her conscience—when you die, you still have to bring two companions? Your whole family can't die well—woo woo——!"
The scolding was vicious, and when Zhen Gang heard it, he stopped his disabled footsteps, and his angry eyes stared straight into the bamboo forest-
Zhen Xue wanted to rush home, but she didn't hear the meaning of the other party's words for a while?
His daughter-in-law stepped forward, didn't say a word, and dragged Zhengang home. When I heard the scolding in the bamboo forest again, it was obvious that someone ran out and took the woman away, and the scolding was cut off at once-
When I arrived home, the courtyard was already full of people, and the old woman's body had been lowered from the sling by the tribesmen and placed in the middle of the hall, covered with a black cloth!
Seeing this, Zhenxue pulled her little sister to throw off her sister-in-law and strode into the yard, rushed to the hall, and took a look at the black cloth, the old woman was already pale, closed her eyes peacefully, stiff and cold, the two sisters suddenly, their eyes were dark, their liver and gallbladder were split, and they cried again-
Zhengang and his wife then carried the sleeping child into the hall, without saying a word, knelt in front of the hall, and also cried loudly, the cry alarmed the infant child, and the child also cried together!
He didn't forget to settle the Lingwa first, and first brought the Lingwa into the hut on the side of the courtyard in front of many clansmen, and asked the Lingwa to rest first, and then sent food over!
Sitting in the dark hut, listening to the noisy voices outside, her heart was also up and down, fidgeting, wanting to help but not knowing where to start? What can you do? Just as the old lady was about to go out to greet the villagers who were helping, Lingwa suddenly thought of something, grabbed him, and said,
"Uncle, don't worry, I've got something for you, you'll be able to use it!"
The old man's spirit was swaying, and he was about to collapse, but he kept agreeing,
"Okay, okay, I'll deliver food later, rest first, rest, wait a while-" said, still walking out the door-
Lingwa pulled him over, took out the two gold chains hidden in his chest from his tattered clothes, and stuffed them into the calloused black hands of the old chaste.
The old lady didn't even look at it, he pinched it in his hand without care, and his hand was still thrown in the air to gesture to the spirit baby, repeating,
"You rest, rest first—wait a while, bring food later—"
Lingwa saw that the old man was like crazy, and when she saw that he was going out, she quickly pulled him back, and thought, old man, this is a rare thing of great value!
Then he quickly took the chain out of his hand, and said,
"Wait, wait, I'll give it to you later—you get busy, I see—"
The people in the courtyard were all asking him how to arrange it? He agreed in a daze, limped to the hall, looked at the black cloth covered in the hall, listened to the heart-rending sorrows of the children, and when he was about to reach the steps, his legs were lowered, and suddenly he stumbled and snapped, and fell at the door of the hall, and there was no response for a long time, which attracted the people in the courtyard to surround him—
Zhengang quickly got up from the hall and helped him up, he sat on the ground, his eyes slightly closed, and waited for a long time to open his eyes and wake up, and then struggled to get up——!
Lingwa also came out of the hut, dragged the chain and squeezed forward to pull Zhengang aside, and whispered,
"Come in, I've got something to look for you!"
After Zhen just entered the house, Lingwa put the two gold chains into his hands again and said,
"This is what I brought from outside the snowy mountain, you can use it first-I don't need it!"
Zhen Gang looked at Lingwa with tears in his eyes, and then looked at the yellow, orange and orange gold chain in his hand, and couldn't help but think that the money and parcels he brought out last night had all been confiscated-
At this moment, a hundred moods, a thousand tastes are really indescribable, he burst into tears, and couldn't help but kneel down on one leg to Lingwa, unable to say anything-
Lingwa immediately helped him up, and then asked him to carry the gold chain, and the two went out together, helping to greet the clansmen, and the twenty or thirty soldiers who followed-